Integrated Business and Technology - Year 10

Students will study in broad terms the course content of the IB Business and IB ITGS Studies syllabus’s in preparation for years 11 and 12.

Aims

To give students an overview of what to expect in the IB Business and IB ITGS courses.
To develop student subject specific vocabulary.
To develop student skills in gathering and processing information from a range of sources.
To help students to get an appreciation of the Real Business and IT Worlds.
To help students to make reasoned and informed decisions and apply them to real life situations.
To help students develop and use critical thinking skills and apply them to Business and ITGS studies.
To help students to develop essay and study skills.

Academic Command words for IB and MYP exams (Evaluate, define, discuss ….)
IB Essay writing (Harvard style referencing, direct quote, indirect quote, in text citation bibliography entries for various media ….)
Advance Web search Strategy
Ms Word for academic essay writing
Writing abstracts, extracts and summary
Using glossaries, index and contents pages
Ms Excel for Investments decision making (property, shares, bonds, interests…..)
Ms Publisher and Corel draw for business promotion
Business communication (memo, reports, mail merging, and task automation )
Online marketing, data mining, spyware.
Digital business scam (publishing, spoophing, phreaking, salami slicing)

There are four free standing Business modules:

Module (1) - Business Organizations

Module (2) - Business Marketing

Module (3) - Human Resource Management

Module (4) - Business Finance